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Good evening. FDL continues to cover the latest developments related to Occupy Wall Street. Those who are unaware of what happened over the past twelve to twenty four hours, here is a quick summary:
Early in the morning, some time around 7:30 am, the NYPD came over and on a megaphone said that the occupation had 5 minutes to take down any tarps that were put up overnight to keep everyone dry as it was raining. Those at the occupation site decided to hold a group meeting to discuss what to do, whether to comply and take down the tarps. The police did not give any warnings. There was no explanation or a second and third warning that if police orders were not obeyed people would be arrested. The NYPD entered the camp and picked out individuals arbitrarily.
Protesters took the tarps and used them to cover media equipment. The police came in and seized the tarps and made some more arrests. Media equipment was seized and the livestream of the occupation came to an end. Seven people were arrested. One person’s leg was injured and was transferred to the hospital. Civil rights lawyers showed up and NYCLU also indicated support for helping the occupation defend the continuation of the encampment.
Now, let’s resume the live blog. [And, here is the Twitter list I put together with people tweeting the latest on the action.]
LIVESTREAM FROM GLOBAL REVOLUTION
11:50 PM ET Report that police didn’t like it when occupation was using a projector. Doesn’t appear anything happened though, probably because a lawyer was on the scene.
11:45 PM ET Occupy Atlanta trying to get organized. Showing solidarity with not only Occupy Wall Street but also Troy Davis.
10:35 PM ET FDL user Cahokia has a list for more on Occupy Wall Street:
http://antibanks.takethesquare.net/
Large list of planned sept.17 activities worldwide. (mostly the planners FB page)http://naturallyithink.blogspot.com/
Personal blog: i.e. “I will be trekking cross-country with my own tent and outdated ink-pen”. Interviews, photos.http://leftcall.com/2011/09/17/wall-street-occupied/
Story with daily updates.
http://lupefiascopleaseoccupywallstreet.com/
Ha! Webpage asking for concert from Lupe for sept.17.
10:30 PM ET FDL user athena1 reports:
“Speaker just got out of a meeting with the International Workers of the World and they are ON BOARD and wanting to HELP! HUGE CHEERS! They will be joining them on thursday for a global day of action. Want to know if it’s ok for a speaker from the IWW to inform the GA on local labor struggles. Want someone to stop by 12:30 PM tomorrow to talk to GA. Want to bring workers to join them in a night march with their children for all to see the solidarity. MORE HUGE CHEERS. IWW has giving them the little red songbook and the little red coloring book.
‘Can the IWW join us?’ CHEERS!!! Giant IWW banner provided.”
9:50 PM ET Occupy Cleveland action being organized
9:45 PM ET Chat for organizing an occupation in LA in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
8:48 PM ET How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology from VentureBeat.com
8:40 PM ET About 500 protesters estimated to have been at the evening’s General Assembly. The police presence is said to have dwindled. Don’t know if the mobile communications truck still parked across from the park.
8:28 PM ET Individuals arrested are not being arraigned until 1 am. Meanwhile, 20 Occu-pies are being delivered every hour until they are all released. So, if you want pizza (cause there’s a lot of pizza to eat), get down to Liberty Park.
8:26 PM ET Occupy Chicago is trying to figure out what intersection they might go set up at to show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. If an occupation gets up and running, it will be nice for the Chicago Police Department to give the world a preview of how they might handle protests during the NATO/G8 meeting in May 2012.
8:25 PM ET Occupy Wall Street has raised more than $10,000 for food. Needs to raise funds to purchase a generator. Here’s the link for donations.
7:30 PM ET Take a deep breath. Relax. It is okay, all. The Internet has not been shut down as if San Francisco’s BART has suddenly taken over. It is back up and was down for maintenance. No evidence it has anything to do with making sure the protesters cannot communicate to the world.
7:10 PM ET Facebook page to arrange carpools to Occupy Wall Street
7:00 PM ET Few activists claiming there is suddenly no longer Internet access in Liberty Park, meaning it was shut down. If this in fact happened, it is comparable to what BART in San Francisco did in August.
Earlier updates on Day Four from the day blog.
- Raw footage of arrests from today uploaded by @korgasm to YouTube
- Lawyer explains filing against police [this is why I am blogging this action and defend anyone trying to mount an occupation anywhere in the US]. Lawyer Sam Cohen says, “We believe what is going on here represents the core of freedom of expression/association guaranteed by the US Constitution.”
- Cornel West supports:
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Appears that the cutoff is happening, some tweets, e.g.,
@YourAnonNews
Anonymous
Getting reports that 3G / mobile data has been cut off on Wall Street will let you know if we get confirmation. #OccupyWallStreet
5 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Or not:
Edit: This is why you gotta watch these tweets, get confirmation.
Nope. See blog. Someone at the scene is with crew setting up livestream. It has not been shut down.
Yeah, found that out (#2).
Yes, have to be careful. Or be on the ball with correcting updates when you realize you were wrong.
Take it with a grain of salt:
Edit: just reporting what’s out there.
A lot of the misinformation seems to come from fake news websites. That’s what I thought was going on with the yahoo censorship reports until ThinkProgress confirmed.
A different link to the twitter list in case the first link doesn’t work for someone:
http://twitter.com/#!/kgosztola/take-wall-street
Looks like Anonymous (YourAnonNews) may be a little paranoid:
The WS occupation is the lead story on the Real News Network right now:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7338
Kevin, I think your Livestream iFrame (or whatever it’s called) is connected to a clip and not the “live” channel? Open it up in a new window and check out the url.
This is live now:
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
Livestream went out, cut to the Democracy Now clip about #OWS.
Now Livestream’s showing last night’s GA.
YourAnonNews seems to be in San Francisco tweeting information from other sources. You can’t depend on that as on-the-scene, even though information might be accurately tweeted as received.
The crowd looked really big on livestream when it was live.
Thank you, NYPD!
Kevin, is there an error in your link to the Twitter list?
Can’t say they are humorless:
Livestream’s live again.
Try this:
http://twitter.com/#!/kgosztola/take-wall-street
This is pretty shitty:
Yeah, that’s the link.
OK, I’ve been away all day. What’s the story of the protester in critical condition after NYPD sat on his chest (the one over at the mothership)?
Also, as an aside about the tweeting, we ought to keep in mind that the government has invested a lot of money in companies to develop sock puppet social media accounts. Also, the SF Bart tweets were corrupted with one tweet about shots being fired when none had. Just sayin’
Democracy Now interview with the “bleeding hands” guy who got arrested in that brutal video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfcYr3KCDw4&feature=player_embedded
Valid concern. Shall remove.
The wasn’t in critical condition, just transferred to the hospital, last I heard.
Livestream’s out again, playing old footage.
I fixed. But I always thought leaving this — /!/ — in meant you had to be logged in to Twitter to view.
Here’s an article that said critical condition, maybe it is from earlier today.
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/occupy-wall-st-police-raid-1-rights-defender-critical-condition-8-arrests
We’re getting noticed — http://ampedstatus.org/ongoing-occupation-of-wall-street-media-blackout-in-the-big-city-a-surprise-morning-march-on-wall-street-roundup-videos-photos/
Livestream’s back.
I don’t *think* so. Not sure.
Glad it was just you, Kevin. And “noticed” understates it. The republished the entire diary.
Good job.
Examiner is not a reliable source. I’ve written for them before (for, like $3 an hour!) Anybody with at least mediocre grammar can write for them. No editorial fact checking or anything. It’s a news version of Associated Content.
Cool!
The whole post, that’s great!
Nope. It appears to be the “/list/” that makes you log in.
DailyKos users are live blogging. And PressStorm and OpEdNews too. FDL’s live blog is the only one consistently being tweeted and also shared on Facebook.
Good work, team.
Did you see my comment about livestream, Kevin? I think you need to re-grab the code.
and you do have a stellar team here, Kevin — thank you all.
next time tho, I suggest all participants dress up in pseudo revolutionary war gear and claim teaparty memberships, then perhaps the revolution will be televised.
This really is the happening spot to be for this (Besides Liberty Square).
Civil War re-creation uniforms.
OT: (comedic relief category)
Richland school district, near Johnstown Pennsylvania has canceled the high school’s performance of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Kismet because the main character is Muslim and 9/11 9/11 9/11.
I guess next week we’ll have a purge of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” for violating the PATRIOT ACT.
GA speaker: Proposal to take $450 (?) out of the almost $10K in donation fund to print full color posters to distribute throughout city.
Unfortunately some of the folks there seem to be auditioning for Les Miserables instead of 1776.
Livestream crew still requesting Cannon HV 20 Camera, Dell 1525 batteries and chargers, and gas for generator.
At the general Assembly they’re arguing about whether or not to enforce some sort of post 11PM “quiet time” or something. LOL.
And fixed
Wonder what Sam Cohen would have to say about that?
(Guess we’ll find out!)
Okay. NYCLU will easily address that bullshit.
Yep.
Thanks!
GA is talking about chemical weapons now, and how a cop this morning had a canister there ready to use.
Crap – livestream down again.
Livestream back again!
GA speaker is a medic, talking about the procedure to treat chemical exposure in the eyes.
“Get on your knees, put your hands on your knees, tilt your head back, and try to open your eyes.”
Nice work!
Good to know. Thnx.
TarheelDem, as someone who makes their (very small) living from musical theatre, I must correct you. Kismet was adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin. The play that the ignorant bigots replaced Kismet with is Oklahoma, which is indeed by Rogers & Hammerstein. The irony is that both plays have a “muslim” character, Oklahoma’s being Ali Hakim. And I wouldn’t exactly call this censoring of art due to bigotry “comedic relief”. Instead, it is a sad commentary on the anti-muslim post-911 hysteria that has been whipped up in this country and threatens not only artists, but everyone.
And to Kevin, I just want to say that I’ve been linking your coverage of OWS everywhere I can. People are loving it!
September 17, 2011
Outstanding video.
90% sure that’s Lacy speaking now. “We need to increase our numbers by 200-400%. We need to spread awareness of our presence locally and not just on the internet.”
Livestream out, and back, different speaker.
Talking about posters.
Thanks for the correction. I played both concert band 50 years ago. It was comedic in that it went against what 50 years ago was quintessentially American. But your point is well taken.
I forgot about Ali Hakim.
I thought the occupation would end after the police “raid” this morning. Really cool that they’re still there.
Speaker just got out of a meeting with the International Workers of the World and they are ON BOARD and wanting to HELP!
HUGE CHEERS!
They will be joining them on thursday for a global day of action. Want to know if it’s ok for a speaker from the IWW to inform the GA on local labor struggles. Want someone to stop by 12:30 PM tomorrow to talk to GA. Want to bring workers to join them in a night march with their children for all to see the solidarity.
MORE HUGE CHEERS.
IWW has giving them the little red songbook and the little red coloring book.
“Can the IWW join is?”
CHEERS!!!
Giant IWW banner provided.
Biggest night numbers yet!
Couldn’t agree more. There are 17 million people in that city.
I still think music will do the trick. It’s a uniting force, it draws people, it makes the event appear to be more fun. The fear of arrest probably beats out the desire to be a part of the event at the moment.
Like I said before, NYC is full of parties, events, concerts, clubs, etc. all this stuff is happening. Though many may be struggling and hate what is happening to NYC and the country, when deciding between all these things to do and hanging out on Wall Street with NYPD surrounding and harassing them, they are more than likely going to choose the former. If the music they’re into is happening at the protests as well, well, now the protest is the party.
If anyone has music connections, please try to set something up. Lupe Fiasco has shown a lot of interest. I’d hope at least some of hundreds of indie and hip hop groups there would be interested in participating.
That is just terrific news. Wow. Hooray!!
Livestream out again.
Love the hand puppet interlude.
Me too. Methinks it’s a sockpuppet.
I know!!!
Hopefully the opposite is happening. People heard about the police aggression and felt more compelled to come out in support.
There is the experience of Tahrir on the one side and that of Madison on the other to draw on. What happened was much less serious than what folks in Tahrir experienced. And much more than what happened in Madison.
The power of nonviolent protest is in its persistence. No matter what happens the protest doesn’t go away.
There are limits to this. It depends on having some power somewhere with enough morality to understand human rights and enough power to affect outcomes. That power was lacking in Libya because of its thoroughly totalitarian construction. The army turned out to be that power both in Tunisia and Egypt.
My sense is that there is more determination now in the US that something must be done, and folks are beginning to be willing to take big risks to do it. But it will be only a small number of folks in the scheme of things.
http://antibanks.takethesquare.net/
Large list of planned sept.17 activities worldwide. (mostly the planners FB page)
http://naturallyithink.blogspot.com/
Personal blog: i.e. “I will be trekking cross-country with my own tent and outdated ink-pen”. Interviews, photos.
http://leftcall.com/2011/09/17/wall-street-occupied/
Story with daily updates.
http://lupefiascopleaseoccupywallstreet.com/
Ha! Webpage asking for concert from Lupe for sept.17.
Links via: http://www.delicious.com/tag/occupywallstreet
“OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall St.
Join us in #NYC? Tweet your reason 2 #iwilloccupy and the top 5 will get a FREE round-trip NYC & a sleeping bag upon arrival #takewallstreet”
The Egyptian protest is an inspiration, but unfortunately the military has always been the real force there. They kicked out Mubarak to quell the protests, then reacted more violently when they sprang up again after Egyptians realized the military was full of shit. They still retain power.
Now that’s just awesome!!
I’ll bet there are some neighborhoods in NYC that knowledge that the NYPD was leaning on a protest against Wall Street would bring out a few oldtimers from each neighborhood. There are folks who been in this sort of situation before. This is just pure intuition from the history I’ve experienced. If they do posters, I bet there are some neighborhood stores in Harlem, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens that would put an Occupy Wall Street poster in their window. Or churches that would post them where they couldn’t get ripped down.
Regarding this interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfcYr3KCDw4&feature=player_embedded
That was filmed LAST night, after he was arrested for being a Sidewalk Chalk Menace. He got arrested and brutalized this morning (and is still in jail?)
I understand that, but the realm of public space for the moment has expanded. This sort of change is not done by flipping a light switch. You create the space to struggle and then you struggle. You create the space in which you can demonstrate how much power you have, and then you demonstrate it.
That’s the way to do it in the USA.
Yep. Great marketing. Create some buzz around the product…
Totally.
Many thanks to all who are contributing here. I have been lurking since the start. Back to the shadows.
I just checked into my “home forum” and found out that an online friend of mine was down there last weekend, and will be returning this weekend.
Glad to hear from you!
That might be the best campaign slogan EVAR. lol.
Bet there are some old bankers who are fed up with the shit and would walk away too–if they got up the gumption. Some of those guys never make the big, big bucks.
This is IMPORTANT. Because I read one liberal blogger’s post and then engaged him and he was getting all cynical and overly critical because they had not secured organization endorsements before beginning. They also, to him, were not that big of a group and were just people from Anonymous. The more I think about this, the more I believe they unconsciously did something that will work out better than if they had been more organized. That is because had they showed up with 10,000 or more they would not have been a small group and they likely would have had much more trouble securing the park as an occupation site. The park is critical to what is being done and it is hard to get them to leave now and we can see that they will have lawyers defending their right to remain. So, now that the space for struggle is secured, the struggle can really ramp up with more and more people and significant organizations getting involved.
Especially the ethical ones! It’s a “criminogenic environment” that rewards short term gains (be they made by fraud, whatever) over longterm stability, and a process of natural selection where the most ethical can’t compete.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. I don’t think they intended that, but it’s panned out quite well. The way their late night numbers keep increasing is also a (mostly unnoticed) good sign.
Pics from the ongoing San Francisco solidarity protest:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101309416971895678042/OccupyWallStreetSanFran20110917#
The problem is going to be expanding the space to accommodate more people, even in the daytime. And the NYPD is going to be trying to constrict the space as much as possible. In Egypt, Fridays were the best days to do that. I suspect that in the US, Saturdays are the best days to do it. That seemed to be the pattern in Madison.
In Egypt, eventually the crowd got so big that a second area was secured by the Parliament, then as things snowballed toward the end–at the Radio-TV ministry and the Presidential Palace itself. The Stock Exchanges in the US are the Presidential Palace (or at least symbolically they are). Wall Street itself will be toward the last to be occupied, in my estimation because that is where the NYPD will make its stand. To get access to the space, the protesters are going to (1) have to keep their cool for now, (2) build the size of the persistent, (3) build the size of the day-protesters to overflow the surrounding streets, maybe allowing easy passage of workers in the morning (most of those folks potentially are on your side), and (4) holding more rally type events right around work closing time to allow workers to participate briefly before going home.
Oh, and staking out territory with American flags, respectfully planted. (Photograph an NYPD ripping one of those out and…)
Livestream is live, but glitchy, again.
Are they camped out there?
No, Ossifer Krupke, no hippies here.
I have no idea. I don’t think so, though. Just a guess.
Livestream is really really really glitchy tonight.
Hi, just coming back in. I have been at another meeting this evening. So sorry I couldn’t help wiht the live blog.
My last listen, connect and You Tube resulted in requests of food other than pizza. They said they really appreciated it but wanted/needed something different.
I wish I could send them pots of hot soup.
Check the list of food places here: Suporting #OccupyWallStreet
I’m sure they’re getting tired of pizza. It’s NYC, there have to be a lot of delis around with soup and sandwiches.
Yes, the local/close to them has a few Deli places. I didn’t see Chinese or Japanese.
If the Wobblies are supporting #OccupyWallStreet, does that mean that we’ll start seeing some new labor union songs? Something about Liberty Plaza/Park/Square maybe?
Official donation link for the livestream crew
(Via livestream, so definitely legit)
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/Global-Revolution-LIVEOFFICIAL
Live feed says equipment is breaking and one of the media guys was arrested and has not been released yet.
On the other hand:
http://tahririnyc.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/218/
got picked up by:
http://bikyamasr.com/42982/zuccotti-hippies-will-hate-me-%E2%80%93-occupywallstreet/
which is a news website with staff based in Egypt (coverage of Egypt and the region)
Posted to Support #OccupyWallStreet
Harsh judgment on the third day.
Great minds think alike!
Key word: Song
The community has turned a corner in dealing with intimidation.
Thanks!
You might want to re-post the diary once we have a lot of good info. Or I can do it if you don’t feel like it.
Indeed.
lol.
Could you do it. This geezer’s calling it a night. Thanx
The Egyptian activists held small (very, very small) protests for YEARS before Tahrir. So, ok.
I might wait another day or so?
No problem. It’s still kind of short.
Good night.
Interesting excuse:
There are similarities to the Egyptian protests. I just see some very determined people there. Not all of them young either.
The livestream fill-in videos are really, really good right now.
Good night!
Yes, they are. Agreed!
I noticed the comments on occupywallst.org updates have increased a lot. I read through them and, predictably, it seems maybe half are trolls, saboteurs, and know-it-alls (“YOUR[sic] DOING IT WRONG”) or a combination of all. I notice the same patterns whenever there were protests and Indymedia used to be the primary source. For example, the pretending to be a working man who is just trying to make a living in the area but the spoiled, lazy kids who must not be true New Yorkers [or whatever the location is at the time of the protest] are hurting him and his family post is there.
On a positive note, the discussion is growing over at DKos. At least two members are there and occasionally reporting on one of the more current diaries related to the protest. I know Markos and the front pagers care little about it as it doesn’t help the Democratic Party or Obama’s re-election in any way, but it shows the people who participate in the diaries there are quite diverse.
I am not a DKos user but any place that gets it into the public eye is good. Regular media won’t do it. All they show is propaganda and junk. They can’t even get the weather right when the radar shows clouds overhead.
Occupation music videos starting to come in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHjP1tOo9LE&feature=related
One more reason not to buy Starbucks:
“We’re Going To Build a Multibillion Dollar Grocery Business” (Der Spiegel, Sept. 20, 2011)
Better one:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThinkNauts#p/u/0/Kn-ykTwuxcU
screen shot:
http://minus.com/lbthQAPTG24D5
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7861850-wall-street-protest-enters-fourth-day
(found actual link)
“VIDEO: We Ask The Wall Street Protesters How They Manage Their Own Money” (BusinessInsider.Com, embedded video, Sept. 20, 2011)
Livestream is off for the night.
Looking for updates …
Livefeed coming soon …
OT– Russia Today interview: “Alex Jones: ‘The UN is hopelessly corrupt‘ (Sept. 21, 2011)
The Alyona Show: “Troy Davis’s clemency denied” (Sept. 21, 2011)
OT– EJUSA.Org: Please email the Georgia parole board today to ask them to reconsider their decision.
“Troy Davis’ final day” (SavannahNow.Com, Sept. 21, 2011)
Waiting for live stream to resume …
OT– “Typhoon Roke makes landfall in central Japan” (NHK World [English Edition], Sept. 21, 2011)
From “Kudankulam: Protesters call off fast” (TheHindu.Com, Sept. 21, 2011):
Veracruz, Mexico: “Dozens of bodies found in eastern Mexico” (Al Jazeera [English Edition], Sept. 21, 2011)
Awaiting live feed of the General Assembly …
OT– From “Income inequality rising quickly in Canada” (TheGlobeAndMail.Com, Sept. 13, 2011; my bold):
“Nearly 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty: Census” (TheGlobeAndMail.Com, Sept. 13, 2011)
‘Brit Hume: “If [Income] Inequality Is At A Very Much Higher Level Who Cares?‘ (MediaMatters.Org, embedded video, Sept. 19, 2011)
NewBottonLine.Com: ‘Wall Street/Bank Protests Spread; “Pay Us Back” Actions Begin Today‘ (AlterNet.Org, Sept. 20, 2011)
NewBottonLine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/nblcampaign
Chant: “Hey You Millionaires, Pay Your Fair Share!”– “New Yorkers Confront State GOP About Taxing the Rich” (NewBottonLine.Com, embedded video, Sept. 19, 2011)
General Assembly going live shortly …
OT– From “Al Jazeera TV chief resigns” (NHK World [English Edition], Sept. 21, 2011)
“TEPCO sets standard for compensating entrepreneurs” (NHK World [English Edition], Sept. 21, 2011)
“Bodnar: Polish secrecy law might trigger mass protest and a coalition of NGOs” (WLCentral.Org, Sept. 19 2011)
Okay, live blog post for Day Five will be up very soon. Working on it now.
Intermittent video and audio although the connection is up …
PayPal for donations to Live Stream Fund: http://tinyurl.com/occupywslive
Alternet: 11 Things you can do to help the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
MoveOn.Org Petition: Break Up Goldman Sachs!” “The Corporate Owned Duopoly – Dems and Repubs alike, both feed and breed from the same corporate trough.” You can always unsubscribe from MoveOn’s list after signing and make them work for your support.
OT– “Troy Davis lawyers plan last-minute appeal” (SavannahNow.Com, Sept. 21, 2011, 9:02am ET)
Live stream up and down …
Recall the corporate de facto practice of “Dead Peasant” insurance as in “Walmart Took Secret Life Insurance Policies Out On Employees, Collected After Their Death” (Consumerist.Com, July 3, 2007)?
How yet more $$$ accrue to 1%er families … “$260 Million After Death? How Rich Executives Make Money From Beyond the Grave” (AlterNet.Org, Sept. 19, 2011)
OT– Innocence Matters!– “Troy Davis supporters deliver 24,000 signatures to District Attorney” (SavannahNow.Com, Sept. 21, 2011, 9:39am ET)
Morning, peeps.
They’re at it again today, apparently.
Looks like Kevin has the new blog up.
Live blog for Day 5 up now.